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Petrželkova "Štafeta": Madrigali sportivi ed amorosi

Title in English Petrželka's "Štafeta": Madrigali sportivi ed amorosi
Authors

ZAPLETAL Miloš

Year of publication 2013
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Opus musicum
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Field Art, architecture, cultural heritage
Keywords Štafeta; Vilém Petrželka; relay races; carnivalesque
Description This study presents a cultural-historical and semiopragmatic analysis of one of the main works of Czech interwar music, namely of Štafeta (1927) by Vilém Petrželka (1889-1967). The structure of the composition contains an intensive and extensive semantic impulse. The intensive one concerns the subordination of the structure to the "dominant" of "walking pattern" and the principle of rhythmical ostinato. The extensive one refers to relay runs - carnival festivities of the recycling of a collective national body at the time of the First Czechoslovak Republic. Due to these factors, the composition tended to be read as an ideological call up towards a common belief in the collective "new man".
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